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From Analysis to Deployment: A Multi-agent Platform Survey

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Engineering Societies in the Agents World (ESAW 2000)

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This paper presents a survey on multi-agent platforms, with a particular focus on methodology. It presents the four stages of the construction of a multi-agent system and derives from these stages several criteria for comparison. These criteria are then used to evaluate four selected platforms, and lead to a discussion on the future of multi-agent platforms.

Yves Demazeau is research fellow at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique).

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  1. LEIBNIZ laboratory, 46 av. Felix Viallet, 38000, Grenoble, France

    Pierre-Michel Ricordel & Yves Demazeau

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  1. Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informatica e Sistemistica, Università di Bologna, Viale Risorgimento 2, 40136, Bologna, Italy

    Andrea Omicini

  2. Fachbereich 13 - Informatik, Technische Universität Berlin, Franklinstr. 28/29, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Robert Tolksdorf

  3. Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Ingegneria, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Vignolese 905, 41100, Modena, Italy

    Franco Zambonelli

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Ricordel, PM., Demazeau, Y. (2000). From Analysis to Deployment: A Multi-agent Platform Survey. In: Omicini, A., Tolksdorf, R., Zambonelli, F. (eds) Engineering Societies in the Agents World. ESAW 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1972. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44539-0_7

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